Hotel Com's Sendai

... communities" for the most part, but I'm lucky enough to be placed in Yoneyama, which is about 10-15 minutes away from every other town, making it easy to get to the more "urban" ones whenever I want (once again, not too unlike New Braunfels).

We arrived at the BOE and jumped right into things. Walked up stairs to the BOE office, were eyed by the 30 some-odd staff, then were shuffled into the superintendent's office. We then went through a very official ...

... but it was still cool. While waiting for the bus, two French girls saw that I was wearing an Alice Nine shirt. They got lost trying to find the venue so I pointed them in the right direction. Maybe I shouldn’t have tried to squeeze the sightseeing in that morning. Anyway, Zuihoden was gorgeous. The stairs are really steep so it took some effort to actually get to the mausoleum. Aoba Castle was somewhat disappointing because all that’ ...

... One was a frog charm—frog being "kaeru" in Japanese, which also means “to leave”. The other was a pair of chopsticks, or hashi. She told me to use it in Southlake to build a bridge, also called “hashi”, between my two homes.

Super Hotel Sendai City has changed a few things, and I’m not quite sure I like it. I don’t get free goodies for being female ...

... sort of regretted not doing Vampire Knight since we saw a Kaname, but then the heat reminded us that the uniforms would’ve sucked. Comiket was a lot like Artist’s Alley of American anime cons except there was doujinshi ("amateur" comics) in addition to the prints and hand-made goods. While American cons have lots of great stuff, everything here was amazing. You don’t have people making random things from tin ...

Since Mika, Amy, and Dolly could not make it to Layer's Eden last week, we decided to meet up at Sendai Cosplay Fire Vol. 35. Dolly also brought her friend Rachel, who was visiting from France. I was glad the event was indoors because it was so hot and humid. Still, I kind of wished we picked an anime series that had a summer uniform. Again, I was vastly outnumbered by the vampire characters (but that’s okay since I’m the most ...

... a plate of takoyaki and had to eat a piece in one bite in each turn. The catch was that the takoyaki could contain octopus, cheese, or wasabi. Only 2 out of 30 balls had wasabi, and everyone had been safe until the last round. Guess who wound up with a wasabi-filled ball. -_-;;

2 of the 3 girls who were there (their parents owned the nomihodai and their grandparents played shamisen) decided to ...

I have been super stressed lately. Packing up is a nightmare, and I have zero time. I'm ****** at people for not telling me earlier that I would have to give up all of a Saturday.

Yesterday, a group of us girls (ALTs and friends) went yukata shopping. We all decided that we were going to wear yukata for the farewell party and the Sanuma Natsu Matsuri. I was going to get a set with a black yukata that had a flower ...

... my favorite, but we ended on such a high note that I didn’t mind.

I hung around for an hour and half to see if VAMPS would make an appearance, but the fatigue was finally getting to me. Many people had left so I figured that the guys went out the back of Zepp. I had a ton of fun, but I couldn’t help wondering what it would’ve been like closer to the stage. Lucky fan club people! Although my dream of seeing Hyde in the flesh came ...

... a smooth faced cliff where the tunnel once stood. Desperate to leave, he spots a stairwell leading up to a control tower and springs towards it. Unbeknownst to him, the bleeding chains and sun-bleached ropes have been subtly twisting about like snakes and wrap around his ankles as he passes. Falling to the ground, he is horrified to discover that the brakes for the chains has given way and is being dragged into the bay, ensnared in the nylon nets at the ...

... Sutra-sort of like Jews reading the Torah It is the sound of the words which is important. Many of the Buddhist monks can read the words but don't understand them as the Sutra is written in Sanskrit, and are canonical texts. There are also texts about Buddha's life. Buddhism in Japan is practiced only after death. The Buddhist monks take care of everything that has to do with cremation, graves etc. Cremation is the law in Japan ...